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One of the instalments featured a shoestore selling a type of shoe with a remote control. The remote control had various options that would make you (if you were wearing the shoes) walk like various entertainment celebrities (e.g. Mick Jagger, Freddie
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The main point of that particular sketch was that it featured an amazing dancer who could actually imitate those walks amazingly well in just a few steps.
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the set is always the same whereas the sketch I have in mind was taking place on a set really made to look like a shoestore (if I remember correctly).
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